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The ROH World Television Championship is a professional wrestling world television championship in the Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. It is currently the third ranked championship in ROH. With the introduction of the ROH World Television Championship, the television type championship returned to national exposure.〔 There has been a total of ten reigns shared between eight champions. The first champion was crowned on March 5, 2010, when Eddie Edwards defeated Davey Richards in the finals of a tournament.〔〔〔 The current champion is Roderick Strong, who is in his second reign.〔 Jay Lethal's second reign is the longest in the title's history. During that reign, Lethal also won the ROH World Championship in a Title vs. Title match at Best in the World 2015. ==History== The creation of the ROH World Television Championship was announced via ROH's official website on January 20, 2010.〔〔 An eight-man single elimination tournament was then planned to determine the inaugural champion. The tournament was to start on February 4 and conclude on February 6, 2010 at The Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the tapings of ROH's television program ''Ring of Honor Wrestling''. Regarding the new championship addition, ROH President Cary Silkin said, "We’ve been talking about adding a secondary championship for some time. Not only will this give the athletes of Ring of Honor another tremendous goal to work towards, it will also give our great partner, HDNet, a championship that is sure to be defended on the television program. We’re happy to publicly give thanks to HDNet for giving us the chance to add this title to the television show...".〔 It is ROH's second secondary singles championship in their history. The ROH Pure Championship was used from February 14, 2004 to August 12, 2006, prior its unification with the ROH World Championship. After the championship announcement, wrestling columnist James Caldwell gave his comments: "I like the idea. It gives mid-card wrestlers on ROH's roster something to fight for in the context of trying to win a wrestling match to "move up the company ladder." Caldwell further remarked that "ROH bringing back the TV Title to national TV is consistent with ROH's current marketing under Jim Cornette to "re-capture an old-school flavor" to their product."〔 After the ''Ring of Honor Wrestling'' show was cancelled in March 2011, the title became inactive. Although Daniels stopped defending it, he still carried the belt with him as part of his villainous character. With the sale of ROH to the Sinclair Broadcast Group and a new television show scheduled to air in September, ROH reinstated the title for June's Best in The World event.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/who-will-represent-roh-on-broadcast-tv/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ROH World Television Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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